Acouchi - MA game for new players (full)

[llamabeast]

Right, I haven't made a new newbie game for ages, and have had lots of requests, so I thought I'd organise one. This game is for genuinely new players (0-2 games of MP), although any amount of SP experience is fine (the skills are fairly different).

This will be an MA game and will use the Worthy Heroes mod. Renaming will be on, graphs will be on, and everything else will be standard. The map will probably be Cradle of Dominion if we can get enough players (~15), or my version of Parganos (a little fairer than the vanilla version) if we get 8 or so players. If the number's in between we'll improvise.

I already got PMs from quite a few new players so they will be reserved spots straight away:

Ermor - Saxon
R'lyeh - meister_miagi
Bandar Log - Omnirizon
Vanheim - Stout
Arcoscephale - Hoplosternum
Ulm - Heinrich
Abysia - klagrok
C'tis - Aapeli
Caelum - Borum
Pythium - Ylvali
T'ien Ch'i - JZ
Man - Ray
Agartha - Darkstone
Machaka - Karlem
Oceania - rasko
Eriu - sansanjuan

Please sign up, and make sure to pick a race!

(Incidentally, I try to name all my games after South American mammals, for reasons obscured by the mists of time (I think it has to do with my username) - an acouchi is apparently a South American rodent. It's quite cute.)

[Omnirizon]

I think I would like to try Bandar Log

[Stout]

Great, what's MA?

I downloaded the mod from 11-1-2007. Is that the new one?

Are any of the races hopeless in MP?

[Omnirizon]

MA = Middle Age

ideally, all of the races are in a roughly equal range. I don't know too much, but from what I gather reading this board Pythium is considered on the stronger end of the range, while Ulm is on the weaker end; at least for MA.

To me, the advanced civilization historically based races like Pythium (Rome/Byzantine) and Tien Chi (Warring States Period China) are more complex to play. I think their advanced historically inspired base gave the designers a lot of material to draw upon when designing these nations.

On the other hand, clearly fantasy, historical-fantasy fusion, or non-civilized history based races are thematically simpler, and in turn more straightforward to play and design strategy for. Fantasy theme simply can't match real history for inspiring material, no matter how creative the fantasy, and designers didn't have as much to draw upon when designing these nations.

examples:
Ulm: Visigoths?, non-advanced historical
Bandar Log: India, fantasy-history fusion
Abysia: N/A, fantasy only.
Pythium: Rome/Byzantine, advanced historical

I think you will find the first three are simpler to play. Some people might contend that the complex races are stronger, but only in the hands of someone who knows what they are doing. A simpler race is going to be better for a new player.

I would then advise that you pick one of the fantasy, fantasy-history fusion, or non-advanced historical races to play; if your a newbie. These races feel simpler and more straightforward to play; and it is easier for new players to get more out of them as compared to the complex historically based nations.

Well, that's been my impression of nations in this game, and is my two-cents.

[klagrok]

Hey if you are still recruiting Ill take Abysia

[Stout]

I'll take Vanheim then.

[Heinrich]

Thanks very much for this game!

I'll go for Ulm.

[Aapeli]

Been in four mp games already (one of them still running). Didnt do well on any of them tough [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Envy.gif[/img]. I´ll take Citis.

[Borum]

Thanks for hosting the game. I would love to take Jotunheim. My experience only 3 weeks of SP, so truly a newbie.

[meister_miagi]

I'd like to try R'lyeh.